CONSISTENCY. I don't know who tipped Atrios off to this David Broder column defending Richard Nixon in 1969, but it's a gem. It's also a reminder that no sentient pundit could maintain the consistent deference Broder shows towards the establishment -- not given how often the establishment has failed the country and humiliated its supporters over the last few decades. So this just backs up my suspicious that the so-called Dean of reporters retired to Aruba sometime in the mid-80s and a Broder-bot has been penning his pieces ever since. --Ezra Klein
